AUTOMOBILE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. McBRIDE

No. 14308.

204 F.2d 929 (1953)

AUTOMOBILE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD, CONN. v. McBRIDE.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rene H. Himel, Jr., and Eberhard P. Deutsch, New Orleans, La., Harry F. Stiles, New Orleans, La., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellant.

Benj. W. Yancey, New Orleans, La., Terriberry, Young, Rault & Carroll, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HOLMES, STRUM and RIVES, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant's insistence is that the amount of a Marine Insurance Policy cannot be held to have been increased when there was no actual meeting of the minds of the parties regarding an oral proposal to increase such amount. Little need be added to what has been so well said by the learned District Judge, McBride v. Home Ins. Co., D.C., 105 F.Supp. 116, 117. The increase was effected in a telephone conversation...

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